i am also wondering what would be best to send around. if you send a towel are you buying a piece of muslin and cutting it or an already made "sackcloth" towel? i like the idea of the marked border or making the piece into an apron. any other thoughts or suggestions? thanks

I send around a premade cotton towel too, usually a flour sack towel. Sometimes I sew on a binding. I rarely get to stitch a motif on my own towel before it goes out . One round, one of my partners sent out a square of very nice linen that she was going to make into a pillow. It had a raw edge. Aprons get sent around as do squares of fabrics. Be sure your piece of fabric is large enough for 5 or 6 stitch motifs.

If you are going to send around a fabric piece that you will make into something later, I recommend treating the edge so it doesn't ravel and show where you want stitch boundaries to be. Dark or patterned fabric is hard to stitch on!

Mine is a pre-made Sublime towel - I'm just sewing a tie/band to the top or sides when it comes home and presto apron. My mom used to tie tea towels around us for aprons but now I need a little more length

Please don't come up with too many restrictions for your group to accomodate. The absolute best thing to send is a white finished edge piece of fabric (ie a tea towel). DO NOT mark off where you want each person to stitch or send patches for people to stitch...if you decide to cut them up later that is fine but part of the fun is designs are meant to be done as one piece and you will notice if you look through past galleries that they often organically come to interact with the designs already on the towel. It is really cool

I got my towel yesterday. I just got a pack of those flour sack towels. I think I might sew some fun fabric border around the edge like I saw in a previous gallery. I ironed on my starting pattern just a few minutes ago and I'll hopefully have time tonight to get that started.